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- 13 images. Central School Heath & Gove, arch. F.H. Goss, contr. -eight stories -plans at TPL -built on the site of Washington College, later Tacoma High School (SEE: 714 TACOMA AVE. SO.) -for the original Central School SEE: 1114 SO. ALTHEIMER ST. -added to the Tacoma Register in Dec. 2010
- TDL 5/12/1912 p.40 Central School to be one of largest and best in >the West (sketch)
- TDL 11/17/1912 p.19 (il of excavation)
- TDL 11/22/1912 p.2 Lay cornerstone of Central today
- TDL 11/23/1912 p.5 1,500 see Central School exercises
- TDL 11/24/1912 p.38 (il of cornerstone exercises)
- TDL 2/2/1913 p.19 (il under construction)
- TDL 2/19/1913 (sketch)
- TDL 5/4/1913 p.22 (bell from original Central School installed in bldg.) (il under construction)
- TDL 7/20/1913 p.24 (progress)
- TDL 8/31/1913 p.11 One of the finest public school buildings in America formally opens in Tacoma Tuesday (il)
- TDL 9/14/1913 p.1 (il of four views from top of tower)
- TDL 1/25/1914 Anniversary Edition p.12 (il)
- TDL 4/14/1926 Suppl. (il)
- TDL 4/10/1928 Gravure Sec. p.3 (il)
- TDL 5/26/1931 Rotogravure Sec. p.4 (il)
- TNT 6/2/1940 p.A16 Boy meets toad
- TNT 5/3/1945 p.11 Something to tell mother about; steam roller solves pressing problem ... (il of cans being crushed for a wartime scrap drive)
- TNT 8/17/1947 p.A1 Repairs on schools rushed (interior il)
- TNT 4/14/1949 p.B4 12,000 books fall (during earthquake)
- TNT 11/16/1949 p.28 Elevator again running in Central School tower
- TNT 5/8/1951 p.15 Monument is unveiled (commemorating the site of Tacoma's first high school)
- TNT 3/2/1952 p.A16 Air raid shelters ...
- TNT 7/11/1954 p.C15 City schools get "spring" housecleaning (library moved from 8th floor to basement) (interior il)
- TNT 2/4/1958 p.1 School safe carted off, but loss slight
- TNT 4/26/1961 p.A8 The safe way (il of flagpole being painted)
- TNT 5/18/1961 p.A10 Scaffold builders' handiwork (il)
- TNT 6/14/1963 p.9 Board awards school contracts (remodeling of sixth and seventh floors by Strom Construction Co., contr.)
- TNT 12/22/1965 p.17 Debate marks choice of school architects (remodeling and addition by Robert A. Parker, arch.)
- TNT 7/15/1966 p.31 Architect appears
- TNT 1/28/1967 p.2 Contract awarded (remodeling by the Lincoln Construction Co., contr.)
- TNT 2/12/1967 p.A20 (permit taken for addition and alterations)
- TNT 8/20/1967 p.A1 School construction ... (4th and 5th floors being remodeled) (interior il) p.A4 Added administrative offices (il of addition under construction)
- TNT 11/9/1975 Bells ring in spirt of '76 T.Review 11/12/1975 Chief custodian rings old-time school bell (il)
- TNT 11/12/1975 (il of bell)
- TNT 11/13/1975 A-pealing BiCentennial bell (il)
- TNT 8/15/1979 Central gets a new stack (il) T.Daily Index 12/8/2010 p.1 Six Tacoma schools added to historic register (il) 366 Af42A (il of school with children in front) 371.01 OL8F p.47,48 (il) 720 ST711S Stone : ten thousand years ago and now / pen drawings and historical data by Muriel Cambern (il) 979.72 H91 Vol.II p.251
- Year Built: 1912
- Decade Built: 1910s
- On City State National Historic Register
- Style: English Gothic